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The data was collected from searches of the open file envelopes located at PIRSA (typically old coal exploration work or petroleum well completion documentation), and other relevant published information. In this way, an overview of the various basins (Pedirka, Arckaringa...
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A new depth-based method of seismic imaging is used to provide insights into the 3D structural geometry of faults, and to facilitate a detailed structural interpretation of the Penola Trough, Otway Basin, South Australia. The structural interpretation is used to...
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Reliable characterisation of natural fracture networks can improve management of tight gas reservoirs typical of onshore Australia. The Goonyella Riverside coal mine in the northern Bowen Basin provides an analogue study for the development of natural fracture systems in a...
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The project was essentially split into two components. The major component was developing and running an integrated production model of the Patchawarra South West region in the Northern Cooper Basin using GAP, PROSPER and MBAL software. The objectives were to...
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This study investigates the deliverability and economic feasibility of CO2 sequestration through CO2-Enhanced CBM recovery (CO2-ECBMR) in the Camden area, Sydney coal basin. The results of the study show that the CO2-ECBMR impacts the absolute permeability of the Camden area...
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This thesis proposes a decision support model to optimise risk and return objectives extracted from the NPV attribute and from other financial and/or operational attributes simultaneously. The result of this approach is an approximate Pareto front that explicitly shows the...
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The primary objective of this study was to review previous gas wellbore drill trajectories in the Big Lake and Tirrawarra fields which will be subject to an infill drilling development strategy. The study ultimately aimed to correlate wellbore deviation to...
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The report is divided in to three different parts. The first part talks about different type of fracturing fluid. It will be shown that the industry mostly used guar derivatives fluid- linear gel- and they are water based but because...
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Gas production from Australian Coal Seam Gas (CSG) reservoirs can be coupled by hot dry rocks (HDR) or wet geothermal resources. This study investigates the feasibility of heating the coal seams by application of available geothermal resources. Hot water or...
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This research develops two themes - decision-making process and decision type. It distils a 'real world' oil and gas decision-making model together with a theoretical decision-making model. Comparing and contrasting the two models yields several prescriptions for improved decision-making in...
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In this honours project, the main objective would be to consider several possible completion configurations for the well and propose an option for final completion design with details. As part of the design considerations, this project also concentrates on liquid...
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The Indo-Australian plate (IAP) is unique when compared to most other plates in that the maximum in situ horizontal stress (sHmax) orientation is not uniform and does not parallel the direction of absolute plate velocity. Consequently, the Australian continent provides...
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Finite element methods were used to investigate the stress distribution in horizontal, interbedded 'strong' sands and 'weak' shales subject to a high present-day stress state such as exists in the West Tuna area (SHmax > Sv ~Shmin). Modelling using the...
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This work presents sensitivity analysis on two different fracture geometries and includes three models that account for the different fracture geometries, two being 2-dimensional and one being pseudo 3-dimensional. The models account for acid fluid type, pumping schedule, formation composition,...
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As a part of this research, an Excel-VBA based interface computer program was developed based on the methods used for DCA and was later validated using published data. The developed program was then used to analyse the production data from...
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This study is focusing on mini-frac analysis based on the data obtained from the wells that have been hydraulically fractured in the Mereenie Field since 1984. The main tool used in this study is Pumping Diagnostic Analysis Toolkit (PDAT), a...
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This paper shows that hydraulic fracture complexity in the Cooper Basin is caused by hydraulic fluid propagating along pre-existing geological weaknesses in response to high in situ stress and a large difference between the tensile strength of the intact reservoir...
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The objective of this project is to investigate the different factors that can affect the production performance of perforated wells in a tight gas reservoir. The key parameters that can impair the production efficiency of a perforated well were identified...
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This paper is an attempt to present a logical progression from the factors that impact on the steerability and directional tendencies of a BHA to the methods that allow these factors to be calculated and then used in the industry...
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This report highlights various reservoir and well parameters that may affect gas production from horizontal well. These parameters include permeability, porosity, reservoir and bottom hole pressure, drainage and well-bore radius, well length, thickness, completion types, skin factor, turbulence flow, condensate...
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The Australasian Stress Map project commenced in 2002 with 3 years of funding from the Australian Research Council. The current project follows on from the successful Australian Stress Map project (1996-1999).These projects were inspired by the World Stress Map project...
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The subject of this report is the investigation and assessment of a newly suggested method to predict in advance the likely success of fracture treatments. The method uses cluster analysis to characterise existing data in such a way that predictions...
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Designed as a teaching aid, working equipment is installed on the wellhead to assist students and researchers in their studies in petroleum engineering techniques and well management. The well is the first in an Australian university and one of only...
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This work is based on the mathematical model developed by Santos and Bedrikovetsky (2006) and Bedrikovetsky (2008) where the pore accessibility and flux reduction due to inaccessible pore volume have been taken into account in the basic equations. The analysis...
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The objective of the project was to plan and complete initial design for surface facility of the test well. The project was divided into three segments. First task was the literature review of the current available concepts and techniques for...
